This essay takes the naturalized link between ‘the shared home and its language and territory’ – and turns it on its head, postulating instead the centrality, in Galician literary production, of what, following Beckett, it refers to as the ‘unspeakable home’. Focusing on the works of Rosalía de Castro, considered the foundational texts of modern Galician literature, this essay shows how this most canonical of writers, far from perpetuating the ‘illusion of continuity’ of which we wrote above, in fact locates her work in the liminal spaces between possession and dispossession, the cracks and fissures between reality and the supernatural […]